Pyle: Oh baby...! Show me that FINE body! (Looks at computer screen)
Me: (walks by and notices Pyle looking intently at the computer screen) Dude! Lemme see!
Pyle: Suit yourself.
Me: (looks at screen) Hey, the screen is blank.
Pyle: No shit.
Me: Well, wheres the porn then?
Pyle: What porn? I'm looking at my reflection (smooths hand through hair) booya...lookin good there Mister Pyle.
Me: You know, I think we need to lower your ego a little bit. Where's Tiumi?
Pyle: Bond, James Bond.
Me: (drops to the floor anime-style) Answer the question!
Pyle: Frankly, I don't give a damn.
Me: (cracks him across the head with a frying pan)
Pyle: (turns around, unhurt)
Me: wtf? Just cause you're the author, that shouldn't mean you can't get hurt...right?
Pyle: (holds a hand up to his gelled hair, feels a crease). ooohhh! HOW DARE YOU!!!! (makes claws with his hands) A crease! HOW DARE YOU DAMAGE MY PERFECTION! NOW YOU'LL PAY!!!!!
(the next display of carnage is too gory for this fic to write, so I will skip it)
Tiumi: Whats going on in there? (Says through a door)
(blood is all over the walls)
Pyle: Oh, um...nothing. Don't worry, I'll just come over and turn the DOORKNOB!
Tiumi: ? Are you ok in there?
Me: (voice floats in from an invisible spot) what gives? We come alive at the end anyways
Pyle: I'M FINE! I'LL BE BETTER ONCE I GO THROUGH THE DOOR. I'll turn the KNOB in no time! THE DOORKNOB! The KNOB OF THE DOOR!
Tiumi: ?? Whats going on in there?
Pyle: Um...I accidently killed him.
Tiumi: Oh, I thought it was serious (come through the door, taking no notice of the blood on the walls) Why?
Pyle: well...uh...hehe... he put a small amount of damage on my perfect image, and I kinda...blew his head off and tore him limb from limb. So sue me.
Tiumi: Enough of that, Its time for the fic. Last I recall, Rikku slagged Tai across the room.
Pyle (winces) Ya, ouch. Get slugged by RIKKU has to HURT!
Tiumi: Now...onto the story! YIPPEE!
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Tai's vision was swimming when he opened his eyes. He tried to focus his eyes on a single object, but it did not work. Slowly, he sat upwards, yawning. His vision slowly returned after a moment, and he glanced around. It was pretty dark. He looked upwards, trying to find the moon, but it seemed to have disappeared. The stars still cast some light down onto the deck though.
"Wrad kuut ehi dnea(What good are they?)" muttered a man with goggles. He walked over to Tai and kicked him in the ribs. Tai rolled across the deck like a tumbleweed. He came to a stop in a heap near the end of the deck.
Tai held his ribs, stumbling upwards. "That hurt!" he shouted.
One of the men instantly raised the strange looking weapon in his hand and pointed it at Tai, shouting some more. "Whoa...sorry" Tai muttered, gently taking his hands off of his ribs. "Hey, wait a second! You guys are Al Bhed!" he murmured.
At the mention of the words 'Al Bhed', the men began chattering excitedly in loud tones. They leaned towards a large door near the back of the ship and called somebody. "Rikku!"
"Umm..." Tai was searching for words, trying his hardest to remember the language from the games. "Ayo koam ehi Al Bhed! (You guys are Al Bhed!)"
Instantly the two men pointed their guns at him, shouting words. They were speaking to fast for Tai to understand, but from the way they were talking, he could tell he was in trouble. Just as Tai was convinced they would shoot him, the girl with blonde hair from earlier, Rikku, showed up. "Fyed!" she shouted, then spoke rapidly to them. They both nodded, then jogged back downstairs.
She walked up to Tai with an expression of surprise on her face. "How do you know our language?" she questioned. She was indeed very curious about the entire group. They dressed funny, then spoke Al Bhed, their hair was in strange styles, they had no weapons. "Where are you from? It must be a land with strange customs"
Tai was simply staring at her. "I always knew this would happen someday. Someday, I would find that you were real, or maybe Selphie or Yuffie, or any of you! I can't believe it! You really are real!"
Rikku giggled. "Of course I'm real! Your real aren't you? Look" She held at her hand and touched it to his shoulder. "I'm flesh and blood, just like you. Who is Selphie and Yuffie?"
Tai ignored her. "I've been waiting for something like this to happen for so long..."
Rikku looked at him strangely. "You feeling alright?"
Tai beamed at her. "Hell yeah. Never been better"
"Now, will you answer my questions?" She asked. Tai nodded. "Why did you seem so surprised by the fact that I am real?"
Tai suddenly got a pained feeling in his gut. What would he say? "Sit down...it's a complicated and long story"
Rikku sat down next to the railing, Tai facing the opposite side of her. "Well? Im dying to hear this. Maybe you got affected by Sin's toxin"
Tai sighed. How could he explain this to her? Video game characters weren't real, they were just computer images. But no matter how many times Tai tried to wake up from this dream, or how many times he tried to blink and make her disappear, it wouldn't work. "Rikku, in my world, you aren't really...real. People have made a video game out of you"
Rikku looked puzzled. "Video game?"
Tai sighed again. This would take a long time. "A video game is a form of entertainment that people make for themselves. It is made up of simulated images with sounds added in. I know, we get kicks in weird ways, but you've gotta believe me! In my world, you are world famous! You guys have millions of fans! I know everything about you"
It was now time for Rikku to sigh. "Sin must have given you a pretty big dose. Alright, if you know everything about me, tell me, something about me"
Tai finally found a good use for all of the knowledge he had gained about her over the years. For once, he found that useless knowledge was useful. "You have spiral green eyes, your weapon is the 'Godhand'. You are Yuna's cousin, and you like to call her Yunie. You slugged Tidus when you first met him. You like stealing things, your afraid of thunder!" the list could go on and on.
Rikku stopped him after this, thinking hard. Did Sin's toxin to THIS? How could this little boy possibly know so much about her. "Look at this!" he said. He reached into the back pocket of his shorts, pulling out a small pouch of black leather. He pulled out a piece of paper, unfolded it, then showed it to her. Rikku gaped.
It was a picture of her as a simulated image. It was her clothes, her eyes, her hair, even an Al Bhed ship in the background. How could THIS be explained? "B-but thats me!" she shouted, snatching the picture from his hands and looking at it closely. It even had the long blue tails that came off of her back! Not even the most talented artist in all of Spira could draw this!
"I know this is a lot to tell you" Tai murmured quietly. "Could I please see my friends for a moment?
Rikku nodded slowly, then beckoned to him to come along with her and stepped through the door. Tai followed her, trotting down the stairs and into a large room, filled with doors all over the place. She motioned to a door on the left, then turned around and walked calmly up the stairs, lost in thought. Tai had sympathy for her. What would he feel like if he found out he was a video game character?
He sighed, then stepped through the door she had motioned him to. The door closed behind him with a loud clanging noise.
Matt and Sora were sleeping on the floor, Tsunomon, Koromon, and Biyomon in a pile next to them. Tai leaned over and shook Sora slowly. He had woken her up before and knew it wasn't very hard. She shook her head a little, then gently stretched outwards, sitting up and blinking several times.
Tai walked over to Matt, then slagged him across the face. The only way of waking him up that Tai knew other then body-slamming him. He groaned, then sat up also, yawning slowly. Then he dragged a hand across the scabs on his back, bending over in pain. "God, my back is killing me!" he muttered, sitting against the wall so that he would not have to move his back.
Tsunomon, eager to know what was wrong with his master, jumped on his shoulder. "Whats wrong? Is your back hurting?" he asked desperately.
Matt sighed. "Don't worry, I'm alright"
Koromon bounced across the floor in front of Tai. "So...whats up?" he asked.
Biyomon too flapped upwards, hovering in the air above Sora. "Yeah, where are we?" she asked.
Tai sighed, then looked at Matt. "Hey Matt, you know the final fantasy series?" Tai asked. Matt nodded. "Oh, I've heard of that too! I used to play them all the time" Sora said to him. Tai sighed again, then hung his head. "We are in the final fantasy ten world" he murmured.
Matt stared at him blankly for a moment. Sora did the same. Matt put a hand up to his chin, peering at Tai like a bird-watcher. "Tai...um...have you been smoking the magical weed again?"
"No! I swear its true! I just went outside and met Rikku! She even spoke Al Bhed!"
"Sora, whats final fantasy?" Biyomon asked. "Yeah, what is it?" said both Koromon and Tsunomon.
Tai, for the third time in one minute, sighed. "It's a video game you guys. Something humans do for entertainment. Its not real"
"But..." Tsunomon began. "If it's not real, then how can we be in it?"
"We're not" Matt said, standing up and ignoring the pain on his back. "I'm gonna go out there and show you myself that we are just kidnaped by someone or something that isn't all that serious. Watch" He limped forward, trying not to pause with pain, then pressed the big button next to the door. The door shot up, and he walked on through. Instantly he flew back inside as one of the Al Bhed's blasted him with a right hook to the shoulder. "Ow! Godamnit! That freakin hurts!" he shouted.
Instantly, the man pointed his weapon at Matt, growling several short words in Al bhed.
Matt scooted out of the way, resting against the wall. "Who the HELL is that?" he muttered aloud.
"I told you!" Tai shouted, pointing a finger at Matt. "They're Al Bhed!"
Matt moaned, aching from the blow to his shoulder which had settled much pain in his back.
Sora looked at Tai. "Tai, you studied them for hours. Can't you speak their language and ask where...whoever that blonde haired chick is?" Sora asked.
"Her name is Rikku" Tai replied, then he turned to the Al Bhed. "I'll see what I can do"
The Al Bhed man shouted some more at them, then closed the door and turned around, holding his gun up in a guard stance. They heard him shouting some more, then silence. Tai muttered something about being ignorant, then leaned up and pressed the button, jumping out of the way as the Al Bhed aimed a gun at him.
"Zniri um Rikku?" Tai shouted at the man.
"I'm right here" said Rikku, walking through the door and chatting rapidly to the Al Bhed guard who bowed and walked away.
"What are your names?" she asked them, walking into the room and pulling off her goggles with a clicking noise. "I have to know whats going on around here"
"Sora"
"Matt here"
"Tai"
The three digimon stepped up to her, looking curiously at her. "I'm Biyomon" said the pink bird flapping around above them. "Tsunomon at your service" he bowed before her. "And me, Koromon!" said the small pink ball, bouncing up and down.
Rikku looked like she was about to say something but something interrupted her. A loud shouting from the man outside who rushed off. Even from their distances, they could hear the dull pricking noises of gun shots. Rikku shouted something and he shouted back. Then she leapt upwards, running out and closing the door behind her.
Inside, Sora and Tai rushed up to the door, and Matt limped behind them. Outside, they could here several screams and shouts of men, some war cries. More shouts came, then silence.
Instantly the entire room was rocked all over the place. All of six of them were thrown all over the place as the floor shook and rumbled beneath them. Then they were all thrown to the back of the room, crashing against the wall so hard not even Biyomon could get up.
Instantly the door was slammed to the ground as a fiend burst through it, Rikku standing on top of it. It struggle, tearing at her with its claws and tail, then flapping its wings and trying to get off the ground.
Rikku slashed at a leg and the claw was sliced off. She kicked it across the room, then leapt onto the creature's stomach whilst still dodging claws, then slashed at its throat. Creating a huge tear in its breathing system, the creature gave a dying squeal and lay still.
"Don't leave for any reason!" Rikku shouted, running out the door. "Sin is here!"
Matt, Tai, Sora, and the digimon looked at each other. "Run!" Tai shouted, running out towards the door and helping to support Matt. Sora to dragged them both along, then let out a scream as a huge claw slammed down onto the floor in front of her.
She looked upwards at its flat, square face. It had a mouth that seemed to grin. It looked that way mainly because of the long sharp teeth in it. Drool dripped off it's lips as it gently opened its fangs. Then it slammed another claw down next to Sora, who dodged out of the way.
"We are so dead" Matt muttered looking up at the grinning creature.
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Me: Aha! Alive once again!!
Pyle: Not for long....
Tiumi: You...be quiet!
Pyle: In case you don't know, Sin is the big villany big boy boss that you chase throughout the game. He takes the form of a natural disaster whenever he attacks and releases a bunch of fiends to do his bidding.
Me: SUCCESS! I am alive!
Tiumi: Oh, shut up! (Slaps him across the face with a paw as big as a T-bone steak)
Me: Ow! That hurt godamnit!
Tiumi: (dives towards him and strangles him personally)
Pyle: (content to watch them) I can't tell you how entertaining this is.
Tiumi: Good!
Pyle: Goodnight all! Its [10[]:53 PM!] pretty late!